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The Daily Beast:
Trump 'Couldn't Give a Shit' About China Rounding Up Millions of Muslims — John Bolton described a president perfectly fine with concentration camps being built in western China. Administration officials say it's painfully true. — The ugliest claim made by John Bolton …
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
John Bolton insisted on a personal Air Force jet flying him to London for Donald Trump's state visit - and staff called him ‘mean and nasty,’ Trump confidante claims in fightback against aide's book — John Bolton was disliked by his White House staff and demanded his own Air Force jet …
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Wall Street Journal and KEYT-TV
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Make Sure I Win”: John Bolton's Unredacted Book Shows What Trump Was Really Trying to Hide — Trump's own words to Xi Jinping, among others, were so damning and politicized that the government insisted they be removed. — John Bolton's account that Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping …
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New York Times, Washington Post, The Week, United States Department …, Deadline and Talking Points Memo
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Pompeo blasts Bolton's book as ‘spreading a number of lies,’ calls him a ‘traitor’: ‘I was in the room too’
Pompeo blasts Bolton's book as ‘spreading a number of lies,’ calls him a ‘traitor’: ‘I was in the room too’
Washington Post:
Bolton's future as leading Republican hawk may depend on Trump's defeat in November
Bolton's future as leading Republican hawk may depend on Trump's defeat in November
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The Week, Axios and Los Angeles Times
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Seizing the Presidency to Suit His Own Needs
Seizing the Presidency to Suit His Own Needs
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The Daily Beast, ABC News and Bloomberg
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection — President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign's multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.
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NBC News, Axios, The Hill and Associated Press
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden widens lead over Trump; Republicans enthusiastic, but fear motivates Dems
Fox News Poll: Biden widens lead over Trump; Republicans enthusiastic, but fear motivates Dems
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New York Times, The Hill, The Week, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Washington Times and Politico
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why Juneteenth Matters — It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln's promise of “a new birth of freedom.” — Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment …
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Michael Ruane / Washington Post:
Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives — The handwritten document informed the enslaved in Texas they were free on June 19, 1865 — The National Archives on Thursday located what appears to be the original handwritten “Juneteenth” military order informing thousands …
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Real Clear Politics and The Week
The Hill:
GOP fears Biden's low-key campaign is paying off — Joe Biden hasn't held a press conference in 77 days but Democrats aren't feeling much pressure to put the presumptive nominee front and center at the moment. — Biden has, for the most part, kept a low profile throughout the coronavirus pandemic …
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ABC News:
Democrats aim to undermine Trump's pitch to black voters with Tulsa rally counter-programming
Democrats aim to undermine Trump's pitch to black voters with Tulsa rally counter-programming
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Axios
Dr. Samantha Whiteside / Tulsa World:
I'm a Tulsa emergency physician and conservative, and the Trump rally is a terrible idea
I'm a Tulsa emergency physician and conservative, and the Trump rally is a terrible idea
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Business Insider:
The Tulsa arena that's hosting Trump's rally is asking the campaign for its plan to keep people safe …
The Tulsa arena that's hosting Trump's rally is asking the campaign for its plan to keep people safe …
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, Raw Story and PBS NewsHour
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Campaign Pushing for Four Debates With Biden
Trump Campaign Pushing for Four Debates With Biden
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QU Poll, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Hill
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trump's response to racial tensions in the country — A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump's recent handling of racial tensions across the country …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its crackdown on misinformation — The label marks the fourth time Twitter has added labels to the president's tweets. — Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump's tweets …
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Variety, The Gateway Pundit, Just The News, The Verge, TVNewser, New York Post and The Week
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Twitter labels Trump tweet of “racist baby” as manipulated media
Twitter labels Trump tweet of “racist baby” as manipulated media
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Associated Press, One America News Network, Mediaite and Politico
MSNBC:
Sen. Klobuchar takes herself off Biden's list of possible running mates — Sen. Amy Klobuchar says a woman of color should be the one to serve alongside Joe Biden as vice president, and so she is withdrawing herself from consideration. She talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about her decision.
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NBC News, The Week, Althouse, One America News Network, Fox News, Deadline, New York Post and Breitbart
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Brent Lang / Variety:
AMC Theatres Unveils Plans to Reopen During Coronavirus — AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, has unveiled plans to re-open after coronavirus forced it to close its more than 600 venues in the U.S. for nearly four months. — The company is expected to resume operations in 450 …
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Los Angeles Times, The Daily Dot, New York Times, The Wrap, The Week, Raw Story and WCDC-TV, more at Mediagazer »
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Sorry, Junior, but He'll Never Love You Like He Loves Ivanka — Watching Donald Trump Jr. interview Donald Trump Sr. was crazy, and f*cked up, but mostly it was sad. — BEAST INSIDE — It was billed as the Triggered Father's Day Special and at 8 PM on Thursday, the president's namesake …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protesters — The Air Force inspector general is examining whether secretive National Guard surveillance aircraft improperly monitored demonstrators in Washington and Minneapolis. — WASHINGTON — The Air Force inspector general …
Tim Mak / NPR:
Whistleblower: TSA Failed To Protect Staff, Endangered Passengers During Pandemic — Audio will be available later today. — The Transportation Security Administration withheld N-95 masks from staff and exhibited “gross mismanagement” in its response to the Coronavirus crisis …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Juan Williams Leaves Fox News Co-Hosts Speechless With Powerful Black Lives Matter Defense — “The Five” hosts had nothing to say after Williams condemned them for “demonizing” BLM protesters while giving violent white supremacists a pass. — As one of the very few left-leaning personalities still left …
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
SEC to Mississippi: Change Confederate-themed flag or risk losing college sports events — The NCAA's Southeastern Conference commissioner warned that Mississippi could lose SEC championship games if it doesn't alter the state flag.. — The NCAA's Southeastern Conference on Thursday told …
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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr / New Yorker:
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See — For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told? — On March 16, 1968, James Baldwin walked to the podium at a fund-raiser, at Anaheim's Disneyland Hotel, to introduce Dr. Martin Luther King …
Martha S. Jones / New York Times:
Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names — Ayanna Pressley and Harriet Tubman both used naming in a way to evoke power. — “SoJo,” the cat of Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, is a celebrity in her own right. SoJo is a minor Twitter influencer …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's tailspinning presidency is in turmoil — even by his own standards — Washington (CNN)If he was any other President, at any other time, Donald Trump's reelection hopes would probably already be doomed. — Trump has endured one of the most disastrous political streaks of any modern commander …
CNN:
Retired generals pull support for Trump nominee after offensive tweets uncovered by CNN — (CNN)At least two retired Army generals have pulled their support for President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee the Pentagon's policy shop after CNN's KFile reported last week that he has a history …
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Foreign Policy and Wall Street Journal
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
New 2020 Electoral College Ratings — With just under five months until the election, President Trump is a severe underdog for re-election. Polls show that voters do not trust him to handle the two most pressing issues of the day — the coronavirus pandemic and race relations — which has helped drive his job approval to 41 percent.
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National Review
Laurie Moy / USAGM:
USAGM CEO implements critical changes on day one to fulfill legislative mandate — U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO Michael Pack implemented critical changes on his first day to steer the agency back toward its mission: “to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.”
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Lara M. Brown / The Hill:
The ‘blue wall’ is reforming in the Rust Belt — In 2016, President Trump broke through Hillary Clinton's “blue wall.” He won three states that Democrats had carried since the 1980s: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. — As Politico explained in an analysis last December that examined …
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Althouse
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump says he's heard ‘interesting’ things about Roswell — President Donald Trump says he's heard some interesting things about Roswell, but he's not sharing even with his eldest child. — Trump made the comments Thursday in a Father's Day-themed interview with his son Don Trump Jr., hosted by the president's reelection campaign.
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Breitbart
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Seattle Soviet — Column: The tragicomedy of Free Capitol Hill, CHAZ, and CHOP — “What,” Marx asked, “is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?” — In 1871 the Commune was the revolutionary government of Paris, a revolt against the newborn Third Republic of Adolphe Thiers.
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Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Susan Collins Puts Bolton Book in Amazon Cart but Remains Undecided About Placing Order — WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senator Susan Collins has put John Bolton's new book in her Amazon cart but is undecided about placing an order for it, Collins confirmed on Thursday.